April 20, 2006

Surely, there's someone less sexy than Gilbert Gottfried, but when you're making a list, you've got to put famous people on it. But anyway, Gottfried is funny, and don't all those surveys about what women find sexy always put humor near the top? I know... but still... There's got to be a guy who looks and sounds like Gottfried but isn't funny.

I'm not going to pick over this whole list. I'll just focus on #38, Larry David. I've had spontaneous discussions with women on the precise subject: Larry David is sexy.

And let me single out one choice to agree with: #45, Nick Nolte. I don't know exactly what it is, but I have a physical aversion to him. (Which makes me want to ask: why isn't Michael Douglas on the list?)

And what's with throwing in Osama Bin Laden -- at #8. (And why 8, specifically? Just to stick it to guys like Alan Colmes, who fared worse?) If the list is open to the likes of bin Laden, this guy springs to mind.

Surely, there's someone less sexy than Gilbert Gottfried, but when you're making a list, you've got to put famous people on it.

Heh, heh. Can you imagine if they didn't do it that way? And the hairy slob from down the street found himself on the list? Yes, you, Howard Schlump, of Magnolia Street. You are one of the unsexiest men in the world!

I agree with putting Randy Johnson at #2, though now that he has short hair he's less odd-looking than he used to be. There are a lot of baseball players on this list -- Nixon, McGee, Matsui, Tavares -- is baseball known as an especially ugly sport?

The other one that jumps out at me is Seinfeld: I know a lot of women who thought Jerry was cute when he was younger. As for Bin Laden, I'd say he'd have to be #2 behind that Pakistani terrorist who looks like Ron Jeremy's long-lost cousin.

From hookahs to unsexy men, no wonder I keep coming back to this blog. Emeril Legasse is on the list. I note smiles from many of the women in his studio audience. I wonder if the smiles are for Emeril or the way he handles his meat?

Also: I don't think people adequately appreciate the degree to which Gottfried's personality is probably a persona...that is, if you hung out at his house, I'm willing to bet that he doesn't actually act like that.

Very common among comics, especially of the old school...schtick is their business, and a big public persona is a classic way of branding oneself.

Take away the schtick, and I'm not sure Gottfried is actually that bad looking.

How can you select Glenn? He may be crude and have a big jaw, but he is fit and sleeps with many women who must find him sexy (including the pretty maid/wife and Loretta (who slept with him even though she despised him)).

I find a fair number of men sexy on this list. Which isn't to say I'd want to jump their bones, right then and there, if I met them in person. Still ...

I find Michael Douglas quite off-putting too and have for a long time--but I have to say, when he first started appearing in "The Streets of San Francisco" way back when, my reaction was somewhat different.

Some people get less sexy over time (just as some get more sexy), and I'm not sure how much that really has to do with the sheer physical aspect of it.

I find great talent and/or brilliance inherently sexy, not to mention a wicked or off-kilter (but not mean or narrow-spirited) sense of humor. I suppose that could account for my disagreement with some of the entries on this list.

It would be way more damning and hurtful if women actually did compose the list. At least this way the winners (losers) can tell themselves, "what the hell do men know about what women think are sexy"?

I think that most of those people, at least the ones I actually know what they look like, look like people. Maybe they aren't sexy or particularly attractive, but they come in that broad middle that most of us are part of.

As for baseball's over-representation on the list: I don't think that's just the proximity to spring talking here.No, ma'am.

When I was a kid, we used to go through our baseball cards and select the "Annual All-Ugly Baseball Team". Lawdy, but there was some uuhhgly mens around sporting baseball caps. It was hard to keep the number to just nine.

I'm not Ann, but the weather in Madison this month has been spine-tinglingly delightful. Really, there is nothing better than a Good Spring in the midwest. And this one, so far, is most definitely qualifying.

I wore shorts today, too! No more huge laundry loads of long pants! Yay! I know that makes me ugly in some people's books, but that's a cross I will gladly bear.

I would've worked Al Franken in there. He's always struck me as an extremely asexual looking man and the sound of his voice makes it even worse.

As for baseball players supposedly being ugly, I dunno...here in Cleveland all the women are swooning over Grady Sizemore like he's the Brad Pitt of Northeast Ohio. I think it's pitchers who tend to be the ugly ones.

It's not really amazing. Most reporters who work for the MSM are liberals, so you take that fact and turn up the partisan heat, and what do you think you'll get?

I think Simon, that was the unspoken point he was making.

And anyone who thinks Sean Hannity is unsexy has got a screw loose.

Bill O'Reilly, sure. He looks like an arsehold Irish cop.

But Hannity?

Best part of the dismal Moveon.org documentary called "Outfoxed", was when they made the point that Fox News put a "handsome Irish man" next to a "weasely looking one", the better to make the conservative look.

Victoria,It does seem to be the case that a disproportionate number of good-looking guys are conservatives and a disproportionate number of good-looking women seem to be liberals. I mean, who have we got, really? Excluding the federal judiciary, that is; we not only get Kozinski, we get Diane Sykes and Karen Williams while they're stuck with...Um...Steven Reinhardt.

(There may be some dissent on this point, given the weird conservative penchant for terrifying anorexic blondes, so perhaps I'm alone in concluding that Garofalo is attractive).

Bah - you women get all the fun. You just know that McPhee is almost certain to be a democrat. ;)

I also think that men who are too muscle-bound arn't sexy. Arnold Schwartzenegger comes to mind. But really, anybody who's been in those muscle contests would qualify. (What happened to their necks!?!)

13. Mike D. of the Beastie Boys: We hate to do this. But the sickly looking Beastie "did it like this, did it like that, did it with a wiffle ball bat["] . . . because no one would want to get within three feet of him naked.

geoduck2 said..."Are any politicians sexy? I don't think I have ever, ever thought that a national politician was sexy."

Hillary, perhaps. She has a "give me whatever I want, however I waat it, and then get the hell out of my sight" look about herr. That could be sexy in certain circumstances.

Victoria said..."Republican women we see today seem to be MUCH more beautiful than their counterparts. Michelle Malkin. Ann Coulter. Laura Ingraham. And the various blonde babes of Fox News."Ingraham I'll agree with. But the Fox Chicks and Ann Coulter are more or less what I had in mind when referrring to the bizarre conservative penchant for terrifying anorexic blondes. It's actually hard to imagine a female less sexually attractive than Ann Coulter, actually. I haven't really formed an opinion about Malkin; she's eloquent, so that's a big plus, but she's also wrong quite often, so that's a bit of a negative. Nuala O'Connor Kelly, who worked for DHS for a couple of years maybe? But she's not really a politician, just a political appointment.

I know what you mean! Friends and I have had this conversation. I think it's two things: 1) English accent. 2) He's a debate geek, which I love. Have you ever seen the questions for Parliament on C-Span? He's so cute.

I can see the "powerful woman = sexy" angle, but whenever Hillary gives a speech it's like she's shouting in a monotone. It's like if someone tried to make a robot sound assertive. Decidedly NOT sexy. Well, IMO, obviously. She also seems to have no sense of humor which automatically deducts sexy points.

Victoria- You can take heart in the fact that the Boston Phoenix is a free weekly best known for the tremendous number of bizarre personals and ads for escort services. It is very liberal and I would not be surprised if it called Hannity many other nasty things besides ugly.

Knoxgirl-"[regarding Hillary: ] whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat????? I can see the "powerful woman = sexy" angle, but whenever Hillary gives a speech it's like she's shouting in a monotone. It's like if someone tried to make a robot sound assertive."Well, no doubt, "powerful woman = sexy". And I'm hardly saying that Hillary Clinton is my dream date, but the question was, are there any sexy politicians, and I think Hillary has a claim. First, the whole ice maiden thing works for her, second, it's just inconceivable that she's that stiff in private, and third, there's the whole "sleeping with the enemy" thing that inheres in a conservative being attracted to a liberal.

"Now, that Katherine McPhee on the other hand... : P"Part of me wants to agree. We won't go into which part. But in any event, well, here we see the other side of the coin. McPhee is fantastically beautiful; as with Geena Davies, you kind of want to glance skyward and shoot a "well done, fella!" glance in God's direction. But is beautiful sexy? Not necessarily, I'd have to say. I mean, she may well turn out to be not only beautiful but sexy, but for now, I would only agree to the first proposition.